James Thurber

8 December 1894 – 2 November 1961

100 works on record

Biography

The author of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and the creator of numerous New Yorker magazine cover cartoons, was born in Columbus, Ohio on December, 8, 1894. One of the foremost American humorists of the 20th century, his inimitable wit and pithy prose spanned a breadth of genres, including short stories, modern commentary, fiction, children's fantasy and letters. Thurber's father, Charles, was a civil clerk, and his mother, Mame, was an eccentric woman who would influence many of her son's stories. Thurber had two brothers, William and Robert. One day while playing "William Tell" with them as youngsters, Thurber lost the sight in one eye when an arrow pierced it. Ultimately, he would go blind in both eyes, but that never stopped him from writing or drawing. Thurber CarnivalFrom 1913-1917, Thurber attended the Ohio State University where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. It was at this time that the Thurbers rented the house at 77 Jefferson Avenue, which became Thurber House in 1984. Due to his eye injury, Thurber was not able to complete a compulsory ROTC course so OSU would not let him graduate, although they did give him an honorary degree later. Thurber launched his professional writing career as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch in 1920. He began writing for the New Yorker in 1927 after friend E.B. White (Charlotte's Web) got him a job at the magazine. Thurber started as an editor for the magazine but quickly became a writer. His career as a cartoonist began in 1930, when White dug some of Thurber's drawings out of the trash and submitted them to be published in the New Yorker. Thurber wrote nearly forty books and won a Tony Award for his popular Broadway play, A Thurber Carnival, in which he often starred as himself. Thurber died of complications from pneumonia on November 2, 1961. --Thurberhouse.org

Works

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Creative Short Stories)

2008

Secret lives of Walter Mitty and of James Thurber

2006

The Thurber letters

2002

Better to Have Loafed and Lost

2002

Die 13 Uhren. CD. Hörspiel

2001

The dog department

2001

Die 13 Uhren. Cassette. Hörspiel

2001

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces

2000

and Welcome to It

1998

The genius of James Thurber

1997

Writings and drawings

1996

James Thurber

1994

People have more fun than anybody

1994

Muchas Lunas

1993

Fünfundsiebzig Fabeln für Zeitgenossen. Den unverbesserlichen Sündern gewidmet

1991

Thurber on crime

1991

Wings Bestsellers: James Thurber

1990

Selected Letters (Oxford Letters & Memoirs)

1990

The Thirteen Clocks

1990

My Life and Hard Times (Rep)

1990

Collecting Himself

1989

The World of James Thurber

1989

World of James Thurber-With Book

1989

Conversations with James Thurber

1989

My World - and Welcome to It

1987

The works of James Thurber

1986

The Unicorn in the Garden and Other Fables for Our Time

1986

University Days

1985

Years With Ross

1985

Short stories

1985

Fables For Our Time/Further Fables For Our Time

1983

The Curb in the Sky and Other Thurber Stories

1983

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1983

The night the ghost got in

1983

Thurber

1982

Selected letters of James Thurber

1981

My life and hard times and other observations

1980

The Curb in the sky and other stories

1980

The Wonderful O

1976

Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated

1974

Grizzly and the Gadgets and Further Fables for Our Times (Swc 1412)

1972

And Welcome to It (Harvest Book)

1969

Saibo duan pian xiao shuo xuan = Four short stories

1967

Thurber & company

1966

The 13 clocks, and, The wonderful O

1966

Vintage Thurber

1963

Credos and curios

1962

The thirteen clocks and the Wonderful O

1962

Is sex necessary?, or, why you always feel the way you do

1961

Lanters & lances

1961

Lanterns & lances

1960

The owl in the attic

1959

A geometric algorithm for solving the general linear programming problem

1958

Alarms and diversions

1957

Man against woman

1957

Further Fables for Our Time

1956

Furthest fables for our time

1956

A Thurber garland

1955

Thurber's dogs

1955

La quadrature du sexe

1952

The Thurber album

1952

Fables for our time and famous poems illustrated, and The lastflower

1951

The 13 Clocks

1950

My life and hard times, & The owl in the attic

1950

The seal in the bedroom

1950

The beast in me and other animals

1948

The white deer

1945

The great Quillow

1944

Many Moons

1943

Thurber's men, women and dogs

1943

Men, women, and dogs

1943

The male animal : a new comedy

1941

The male animal

1940

Fables for our time and famous poems

1940

The last flower

1939

Cream of Thurber

1939

The middle-aged man on the flying trapeze

1935

The seal in the bedroom & other predicaments

1932

Short Stories from the New Yorker

Animal Farm with Connections

Middle Aged Man on the Fly

Years W/Ross

Julius Caesar and Related Readings

Le sexe pour quoi faire ?

Patterns of Exposition 4 (179078, 7316696)

Selected Shorts

In a Word

O. Henry memorial award prize stories of 1943

Fables for our time

How To Raise a Dog in the City and in the Suburbs

Humor on Wry

Modern American Novelists

Worlds Without End

Die 13 Uhren

Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum

The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition

human life Vietnam and Cambodian

Great Short Stories of the World